Re: bignum branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 09:53:19 -0700
> Cc: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > So, XFIXNUM
> > and XFASTFIXNUM?
> 
> I'd get rid of XFASTINT. Its main reason for existing was faster extraction 
> with 
> MSB tagging, but we don't do MSB any more (except for --with-wide-int, where 
> the 
> faster extraction is not that much faster anyway).

I see no reason yet to get rid of XFASTINT.  Certainly not because we
need to come up with one more macro name.